Another ten years passed.
For the seven great lineages, these ten years had dragged by like an eternity. That invisible, Shrouding Heaven pressure was steadily crushing down upon them.
Upon a great star.
"First Ancestor, all seven clans have appeared."
"Fourteen Nine-Tribulation Immortals are still unqualified to move against Fellow Daoist Song Heng. Has the person behind them been identified?"
"My lord, all clues point toward a force in the starry skies: the Longevity Immortal Palace."
"I have heard a little of it."
Ji Yan smiled faintly. What a coincidence—the Eternal Ancient Immortal Territory had once recorded this force. So it was this group of Loose Immortals.
"Longevity, Reincarnation, Astral Phenomena—you three clans are to proceed to this Star Domain immediately." Ji Yan's Immortal Sense entered the Star Pivot.
Afterward, he spoke no more and merely gazed into the starry sky.
Many forces had once tested the Eternal Ancient Immortal Territory. The Longevity Immortal Palace was not the first, but it was the boldest, comparable to how the Three Thousand Immortal Domains had destroyed the Five-Elements Immortal Path in those days.
The ancestors of the three clans set out.
They did not bring many followers, fewer than a thousand Nine Tribulations Dao Venerables, but every one of them possessed some exceptional divine ability.
Twenty years later.
Sky Seat vanished completely.
The seven clans seemed to have evaporated along with it within this Mystic Star Sky Seat. Not a scrap of news emerged, nor did it stir the slightest upheaval in heaven and earth, as though a single feather had disappeared—utterly insignificant.
A hundred years later.
At the peak of the Immortal Firmament.
Within a region of the Dao Sea.
One mighty being after another opened their eyes.
Two Immortal Bodies floated silently atop the Dao Sea's waves. They